Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.